Chapter 7

Question 1

Inventor of interchangeable parts and the cotton gin

Answer 1

Eli Whitney

Question 2

Standardized parts that can be used in place of one another

Answer 2

Interchangeable Parts

Question 3

The making of goods in large amounts

Answer 3

Mass Production

Question 4

A change in the making of goods from small workshops to large factories that used machines

Answer 4

Industrial Revolution

Question 5

Eli Whitney’s invention for cleaning cotton

Answer 5

Cotton gin

Question 6

Speaker of the House of Representatives and political leader from Kentucky

Answer 6

Henry Clay

Question 7

Clay’s plan for economic development

Answer 7

American System

Question 8

A federally funded road, stretching from Cumberland, Maryland, to Vandalia, Illinois

Answer 8

National Road

Question 9

Canal that connected the Great Lakes with the Atlantic Ocean

Answer 9

Erie Canal

Question 10

A protective tariff designed to help American industries

Answer 10

Tariff of 1816

Question 11

Supreme Court case that denied Maryland the right to tax the Bank of the United States

Answer 11

McColloch v. Maryland

Question 12

Sixth president of the United States

Answer 12

John Quincy Adams

Question 13

A belief that national interests as a whole should be more important than what one region wants

Answer 13

Nationalism

Question 14

Treaty that secure the purchase of Florida from Spain

Answer 14

Adams-Onís Treaty

Question 15

Warning to Europeans nations not to interfere in the Americas

Answer 15

Monroe Doctrine

Question 16

Agreement that temporarily settled the issue of slavery in the territories

Answer 16

Missouri Compromise

Question 17

Military hero and seventh president

Answer 17

Andrew Jackson

Question 18

Party started by Jackson’s followers

Answer 18

Democratic-Republican Party

Question 19

System in which incoming political parties throw out former government workers and replace them with their own friends

Answer 19

Spoils System

Question 20

Law that forced Native Americans to move west

Answer 20

Indian Removal Act

Question 21

Path the Cherokee were forced to travel from Georgia to Indian Territory

Answer 21

Trail of Tears

Question 22

Vice-President and congressional leader from South Carolina

Answer 22

John C. Calhoun

Question 23

Henry Clay’s name for an 1828 tariff increase

Answer 23

Tariff of Abominations

Question 24

A Senate leader from Massachusetts

Answer 24

Daniel Webster

Question 25

National bank established by Congress first in 1791 and then in 1816

Answer 25

Bank of the United States

Question 26

Political party formed in 1834 to oppose policies of Andrew Jackson

Answer 26

Whig Party

Question 27

Eight president

Answer 27

Martin van Buren

Question 28

A series of financial failures that led to an economic depression

Answer 28

Panic of 1837

Question 29

Ninth president

Answer 29

William Henry Harrison

Question 30

Tenth president

Answer 30

John Tyler

Question 31

How did the agricultural systems in the North and South differ?

Answer 31

The North had more factories and the South more plantations.

Question 32

How did the American System help strengthen the nation's sense of unity?

Answer 32

It developed the national transportation system, fro example the National Road, and created the Tariff of 1816 that eventually made American goods more attractive.

Question 33

In what ways did the Supreme Court boost federal power?

Answer 33

Two Supreme Court cases helped boost federal power: McCulloch v. Maryland and Gibbons v. Ogden. The first case established that states cannot pass laws that end up overturning laws passed by Congress. The second case established that Congress has the power to regulate interstate trade.

Question 34

What was the purpose of the Monroe Doctrine?

Answer 34

To keep European nations out of American territories.

Question 35

How did Missouri Compromise help settle the issue of slavery in the Western territories?

Answer 35

It settled Main as a free state and Missouri as a slave state.

Question 36

How did the voting population grow?

Answer 36

Most of the states facilitated the requirements a citizen had to vote.

Question 37

How did Jackson show his commitment to the common people once in office?

Answer 37

He removed about 10% of federal workers from their jobs and gave them to the common people.

Question 38

How did the removal of Native Americans cause a rift between the executive and judicial branches?

Answer 38

The president refused to obey the Court's ruling. Instead, federal agents signed a treaty with a group of Cherokee leaders.

Question 39

Why did South Carolina threaten to leave the union?

Answer 39

It declared the tariff of 1830 invalid.

Question 40

What was a political consequence of Jackson's fight against the national bank?

Answer 40

The creation of the Whig Party

Question 41

What helped caused the nation's depression during the Van Buren presidency?

Answer 41

The failure of many banks Jackson had put money during the bank fight.